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Laravel Certification Program Announced at Laracon 2017
A licensed Laravel certification platform was announced at Laracon EU this week, and a new landing page is up at laravel.com/certification/. The Laravel Certification is a Human Music B.V. product and...
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BotMan 2.0 PHP Chatbot Framework
BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP Chatbot framework designed to simplify the task of developing innovative bots for multiple messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework,...
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Laravel Shareable Models Package
The Laravel Shareable Models package allows you to generate shareable links from your Eloquent models. Think dynamic routes which only exist for models that have been shared. The package author Kai...
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Find Files that Need Refactoring with Churn PHP
Churn PHP is a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that helps you discover PHP files that might need refactoring. At a high level, Churn examines files in the path you provide and: Checks how many...
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Lumen 5.5 Is Released
Lumen 5.5 is now released and available for all. This is considered a maintenance release that upgrades the underlying packages to the Laravel 5.5 series. Before upgrading your application to Lumen...
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Clean Code Concepts Adapted for PHP
Clean Code PHP (jupeter/clean-code-php), is a guide based on the book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship, a classic programming book about writing maintainable code by Uncle Bob...
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The Laravel Podcast Season Three
The official Laravel Podcast started back in 2013, and so far it’s been through two “seasons.” The first ran from 2013 through February 2015, with a mixture of guests and topics. Then came season two,...
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Facebook Releases Yarn Version 1.0
The Yarn package manager from Facebook just turned 1.0 today 11 months after its initial release. The new version touts some pretty impressive features that will make your life as a developer easier...
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Laravel 5.5.3 Released
Laravel 5.5.3, was released on September 8th and includes some nice additions and bugfixes. Let’s look at a few highlights, along with the full changelog of what’s new in 5.5.3. The rescue() Helper...
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Laravel News T-Shirts – 2017 Edition
This years Laravel News t-shirt and hoodies are now available for purchase from Cotton Bureau. It comes in two colors Charcoal and Heather, and come in three styles: a men’s tee, women’s tee, and a...
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Getting to Know the Laravel Tinker Shell
Laravel includes a powerful REPL, called Tinker, powered by the PsySH console by Justin Hileman under the hood. The tinker console allows you to interact with your Laravel application from the command...
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Sublime Text 3.0 is released
Sublime Text 3.0 is now released and it features a refreshed UI theme, new color schemes, and a new icon. Everything has been improved since v2 and includes better performance. From their release...
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Dynamic templates in Laravel Blade with View::first
When building dynamic components or pages sometimes we want to display a custom template if it exists or otherwise fall back on a default one. For example, imagine we are building a pages module, and...
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Laravel 5.5 Now Includes TrustedProxy
Laravel v5.5 was released just a week ago at Laracon EU. You may have noticed that the v5.5 composer.json file requires the fideloper/proxy composer package. For me, this is one of those packages I...
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Testing With PhpSpec
PhpSpec is a testing tool based on the concept of emergent design using specification. You may have heard of Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and PhpSpec is a tool to use at the spec level or...
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Creating Your Own Configuration in Laravel
Laravel configuration allows you to define per-environment configuration with the excellent vlucas/phpdotenv package. If you are new to Laravel, you might not yet know how you can create your...
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Take the Laravel 2017 Survey
Last year we partnered up with LaraJobs to put together a survey to see what types of projects people are taking on with Laravel as well as get some feedback on what the Laravel community could be...
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The Top Five Laravel Community Editor Themes
We’ve assembled the top editors and themes from hundreds of developers, and we’re happy to share the results with you. The editor theme is one of those bling items that you get to show off a bit. To...
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GitHub Desktop 1.0 is Now Available
GitHub announced today that GitHub Desktop 1.0 is now available on Mac and Windows. The new GitHub Desktop version has been revamped and redesigned with Electron and has some cool new features that...
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Laravel 5.5.5 Released With a New Route Fallback to Help Customize Your 404...
Laravel v5.5.5, was released September 19th and now includes a neat “Route::fallback()” method to help customize 404 views. Also, the @includeFirst blade directive allows you to include a default view...
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